treaty port in English
noun
1
a port bound by treaty to be open to foreign trade, especially in 19th- and early-20th-century China and Japan.
Chongqing was opened as a treaty port in 1890, but few foreigners made it to this isolated outpost.
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1. The word Amoy was coined after the 1st Opium War (1839-42), when Xiamen was forced opened as a treaty port